Month: July 2025

Doctors in Gaza have been giving CNN first hand accounts of life inside hospitals in the Strip as the ongoing hunger crisis grips.

The testimonies have revealed the very people who are trying to keep the gravely malnourished population alive are suffering along with their patients.

One medic, Dr. Mohammad Saqer, is so ravenous that he sometimes struggles to keep upright while treating his desperately ill patients at the Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza.

On Thursday, he fainted while working at the ward. And then, moments after recovering, he returned to finish his 24-hour shift.

“My fellow doctors caught me before I collapsed and gave me IV fluids and (sugar). There was a foreign doctor who had a packet of Tango juice and prepared it for me. I drank it immediately,” Dr. Saqer told CNN. “I am not diabetic – this was hunger. There’s no sugar. There’s no food.”

Dozens of kids and adults in Gaza have starved to death in July as hunger surgeshttps://t.co/bWY4WNubKs

— Patrick Whittle (@pxwhittle) July 26, 2025

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In June, dozens of biodegradable pods fell from the sky over the forests of Hawaii. Each one, delivered by drone, contained about 1,000 mosquitoes.

These weren’t just any mosquitoes — they were non-biting, lab-reared male mosquitoes carrying a common bacterium that results in eggs that don’t hatch when the males mate with wild females. The hope is that they will help to control the archipelago’s invasive mosquito population, which is decimating native bird populations, such as rare Hawaiian honeycreepers.

The birds, which are key pollinators and seed dispersers and also play a central role in Hawaiian culture, are in dire straits. There were once more than 50 known species of honeycreepers in Hawaii, but today there are only 17 left, most of which are endangered.

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— Omar Akbari (@Omar_Akbari_) July 22, 2025

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The An-24 passenger aircraft was flying over Amur Region in the country’s Far East

A passenger aircraft has crashed in Russia’s Far East, killing all 49 people on board, emergency services confirmed on Thursday. 

The Angara Airlines Antonov An-24 twin-engine turboprop went down around 1pm local time near the city of Tynda in the Amur Region. The plane was flying a multi-leg domestic route from regional hub Khabarovsk to Blagoveshchensk, and then onward to Tynda.

According to preliminary data, the aircraft was carrying 43 passengers, including five children, along with six crew members. The wreckage was found on a wooded mountainside approximately 15km from Tynda’s airport, with parts of the fuselage still burning when rescuers arrived.

Russia’s Investigative Committee has confirmed that there were no survivors in the incident. The agency is looking into suspected violations of air transport safety rules resulting in death, which is a criminal offense.

A passenger plane carrying 49 people crashed in Russia's Amur region with no survivors reported, as burning wreckage was spotted from a helicopter.

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— PressTV Extra (@PresstvExtra) July 24, 2025

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Cambodia’s powerful former leader Hun Sen said the country had “no choice but to fight back” against Thailand, as he urged the public to remain calm and avoid panic buying.

“The invasion, as the Thai military said it would close down the Ta Moan Thom Temple today, which was ordered yesterday, Thai soldiers have now begun attacking the Cambodian army,” Hun Sen said on Facebook this morning. “The Cambodian army has no choice but to fight back and strike back.”

In a later post, Hun Sen said he was participating in the military command via video link, following reports that he had left Cambodia for China.

“I have been sitting here since the Thai 2nd Region Commander said he would close the entrance to Ta Moan Thom Temple,” Hun Sen said, specifically blaming the Thai commander for the escalation.

“Please, fellow Cambodians, don’t panic, like rushing to buy rice, or hoarding goods, or selling goods at higher prices, etc.,” said the former leader and father of current Prime Minister Hun Manet.

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Thailand launches airstrikes on Cambodian military targets over border dispute. pic.twitter.com/zyA1e2RHNA

— Globe Eye News (@GlobeEyeNews) July 24, 2025

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The sides will discuss draft memorandums for the peaceful settlement of the conflict, spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said

Russia and Ukraine are poised to hold their third round of bilateral talks in Istanbul to discuss settlement of the conflict, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has confirmed. The negotiations are scheduled to begin at 7pm Moscow time (16:00 GMT) on Wednesday.

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Peskov confirmed that the Russian delegation, headed by presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, had already departed for Türkiye.

The talks, he added, “will mainly focus on issues related to those draft memorandums that were exchanged during the second round, and also a discussion on the continuation of a very important process of mutual [POW] exchanges.”

Asked about Moscow’s expectations, Peskov cautioned against early predictions. “It’s hardly possible to talk about this now. We need to see how it goes,” he said. “No one expects an easy path. Naturally, this will be a very difficult conversation. The draft proposals are diametrically opposed.”

🇷🇺🇺🇦 “A new round of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine will take place on July 24-25”, a source in Moscow told RIA Novosti

-> Zelensky just sidelines the chief negotiator, Umerov. So he did it to chaotic ge the negotiations dynamics pic.twitter.com/oB8iAU5AZs

— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) July 21, 2025

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The attack, which involved Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, also hit military airfields, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said

Russian forces have carried out a coordinated overnight strike on Ukraine’s military-industrial complex and airfield infrastructure, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said.

In a statement on Monday, the ministry reported that a group strike used long-range air-, sea-, and surface-launched precision weapons. It also included Kinzhal hypersonic ballistic missiles and attack drones, officials added.

“The goal of the strike has been achieved. All designated targets have been hit,” the ministry stated.

Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky confirmed the strikes, reporting damage in Kiev and its surroundings, as well as in Kharkov and Ivano-Frankivsk regions. He also claimed that Ukrainian air defenses had downed drones in Sumy, Khmelnitsky, Kirovograd, Nikolayev, and Poltava regions, and in the Kiev-occupied part of Kherson Region.

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A series of powerful earthquakes struck off the coast of Russia’s far east on Sunday, triggering a tsunami alert, the US Geological Survey said.

Earlier 5.0-magnitude and 6.7-magnitude earthquakes did not initially trigger a tsunami alert, but were followed by a 7.4-magnitude quake at 0849 GMT, prompting the USGS to warn that “hazardous tsunami waves are forecast for some coasts”.

The USGS said it expected waves of between 30 centimetres and one metre (up to 3.3 feet) on Russian coasts, and less than 30 centimetres (one foot) in Japan and the US state of Hawaii.

The epicentre of the quakes was in the Pacific Ocean, around 150 kilometres (93 miles) east of the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, it said.

The initial earthquakes were followed by several aftershocks, including another 6.7-magnitude quake, said USGS.

BREAKING: Tsunami alert after powerful earthquakes strike off coast of Russia: USGS https://t.co/orsGTObgOt

— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) July 20, 2025

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